Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATES…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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